Embedded Reading Device for Blind People: A User-Centred Design

A handheld PDA-based system is being developed to help blind people in their daily tasks. The design combines in a continuous process Users' involvement and Engineers' effort. This interaction is made efficient thanks to a specialist able to communicate with both parties and to extract useful knowledge for them. The system can be viewed as a main loop including the User taking the snapshot, Text/Picture detection, Optical character recognition, Text-to-speech synthesis, Feedback to the User, until a useful output is reached. Each task is carried out by algorithms integrating both technical performance and user requirements.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: AIPR
• Authors: Jean-Pierre Peters, Céline Thillou, Silvio Ferreira
• Keywords: AIPR 2004, Continuous Process Users, Efficient Thanks, Optical Character Recognition, Pattern Recognition